MISO’s Board of Directors will have the same lineup going into the new year with MISO’s membership voting in support of retaining three incumbent directors.

ITC Midwest can keep the capital structure it has had in place since 2007, FERC decided, blocking a complaint led by Alliant Energy.

MISO plans to spend $364.2 million throughout 2023, a 3.2% decrease from this year’s budget.

MISO’s 2022 transmission planning portfolio cleared its first vote before board members, though some stakeholders have lodged complaints over the package.

Stakeholders and regulators concerned about extreme weather and clogged interconnection queues are also encouraged by FERC’s proposed rulemakings on the issues.

MISO members reopened the idea that the grid operator enact resilience criteria within its footprint.

MISO and SPP prepared stakeholders last week for the possibility they may come up empty-handed in their hunt for smaller interregional transmission upgrades.

FERC approved an agreement that will keep an Ameren Missouri coal plant online past its planned retirement date to maintain MISO grid reliability.

FERC last week affirmed the Henderson, Ky., municipal utility’s status as a transmission owner in the MISO region.

MISO remains committed to beefing up and making information from its generation retirement studies more public.